"tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE @ the Music Gallery, a sO-cALLED wHATEVER": I was living in a 19 room farmhouse in rural Canada that was being used as a sort of private installation museum in 1994 & 1995.  During this time, I started on my "Triple-S Variety Shows": an attempt to have a one-person performance of substantial (m)usical complexity.  These revolved around the use of 3 synthesizers, & one sampler/sequencer — as well as effects & mixers etc..  The modules I made for this were mini-sequences created as K1M wave-table synthesizer voices, the samples I recorded (of a very limited nature due to my sampler), & the sequences I programmed (also very limited for the same reason).  Many of things I was creating were specifically built around technical factors that I was just learning about.  Opportunities to present this work were few & far between & never satisfactorily documented.  By September 8, 1995, I had given 3 Triple-S Variety Shows: on September 2, 1994 (Normill, Durham, CacaNada), December 3, 1994 (Monastery, Toronto, CacaNada), & January 12, 1995 (Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, us@).  The closest one to being 'pure' Triple-S was the one in Pittsburgh.  All of them had problems.  This Music Gallery gig was far from 'pure' but every aspect of it incorporated Triple-S material: the Total Mobile Home Suitcase that begins it is playing short realization of Triple-S sequences; the 'bells' in the record presentation are synthesizer generated; the "Diszey Spots" soundtrack was recorded at my residence in CacaNada; the "Funny Farm Summit Meeting" soundtrack was generated using Triple-S materials; & the "Bogus Piano Concerto" was an off-shoot project of the Triple-S shows.  This was certainly one of my favorites of the Triple-Ss that took place from roughly 1994 to 2009.  The venue was fabulous & I was fortunate to be there, Colin Hinz's turntable was a great addition, & John Henry Nyenhuis's keyboard playing is about as good as it gets.  - May 28, 2019 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE 

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